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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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Talkpal
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AI language coach offering conversational practice with real-time feedback across 130+ languages.
1.5M visits/mo9.9K saves
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PTE APEUni
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AI-scored practice platform for PTE Academic and PTE Core exam prep, with question banks, predictions and study tools.
2.1M visits/mo
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SHIFT AI
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Japanese-language membership community teaching professionals and side-hustlers how to apply generative AI to their work.
1.2M visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Conversational practice with AI tutors
- ✦Real-time personalized feedback and corrections
- ✦Dialogue, sentence, word, call, photo, and debate modes
- ✦Voice interaction with natural AI voices
- ✦Grammar courses and language certificates
- ✦130+ languages on web, iOS, and Android
- ✦AI scoring for speaking and writing
- ✦Full PTE question-type practice
- ✦Weekly exam prediction files
- ✦Vocabulary books and shadowing tools
- ✦AI study plan and score analysis
- ✦Web and mobile app sync
- ✦110+ video courses across AI-tool, automation, and business topics
- ✦live webinars from invited AI practitioners
- ✦in-person regional networking events
- ✦free one-on-one career/AI consultation
- ✦corporate AI upskilling program for companies
- ✦member success-story interviews and community leaderboard
Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Self-learners practicing conversational fluency
- →Business teams training employees in new languages
- →Students supplementing classroom language education
- →Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
- →Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
- →Studying likely exam questions
- →Tracking prep progress
- →learning to use generative AI tools for daily work
- →exploring AI-related side income or career change
- →corporate AI adoption training for employees
- →networking with other AI learners across Japan
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